Boulder County BOCC, CO Marshall Fire Briefings, 5 Jan 2022

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From YouTube: Marshall Fire Update from the Rocky Mountain Type 1 Incident Management Team - Jan. 5, 2022

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Jan. 5, 2022 Update on the fire, including important safety information.

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Hello, I'm pat seekins operations with the marshall fire and just wanted to give a brief update on uh what happened yesterday and what our plan is uh moving into today. um So yesterday was a was a really good day. You know we we mentioned the high winds that we did see yesterday.

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The high winds, obviously in around lewisville and superior folks, were spread out very mobile to respond to the calls that we received.

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We did get a few additional calls on some rekindles and flare-ups once again within the fire perimeter little threat, so those rekindles and those small threats that were identified and the resources we responded with to mitigate those were all mitigated yesterday.

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So they were all taken care of, and things are looking really good once again small threats, but they were all taken care of a really good day for our resources made a lot of good progress, both north and south, and in around superior lewisville within the fire perimeter, and once again, that allowed for some additional re-entry and repopulation official this morning on a majority of the areas that were impacted previously so overall, a really good day.

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Moving into today a lot of the same plan, we do have a little bit of wind with that storm coming in, but not as high winds as we had yesterday. So it'll be the same plan. We've got resources spread out focused in the right areas and staying mobile to respond to anything that comes up today, and we are expected to get some snow later on this afternoon and through this evening, so we'll reevaluate moving forward. So with that I'll turn it over to our safety officer with an.

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Update hello, todd legler with safety. uh Yes, yesterday, uh we did see some pretty significant winds on the on the incident area and uh we got a report that a freestanding wall on a building had actually blown over and fell down. So so those were some of the hazards that we've been talking about previously with the winds is hazards are going to be everywhere out there, whether they're, the the freestanding walls that didn't collapse, whether they're freestanding chimneys, that didn't collapse or nails broken glass sharp metal.

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So we continue to ask you to be vigilant when you're entering the incident area to identify those hazards before you just walk in and have the appropriate protective equipment.

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We do anticipate some snow coming into the area which is going to make some of those ground hazards the nails, the sharp metal objects, the broken glass, much more difficult to identify on the roadways. We are starting to get a number of incident. Responder vehicles that have flat tires because there's nails and broken glass throughout the roadways, the the city and county officials are working hard to try to get those roadways clear from the sharp metal objects that can give you flat tires, but they are everywhere.

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So just use use caution when you're in the incident area. Thank you.